Back...in the swing

[deephiance]

Well we're glad to have you back... I think what matters is that you are here today.

I have had a few run ins with depression and I have for the most part forgone any medication. I really hate pills, I don't even like taking aspirin for headaches (and so I am suffer from a long on going headache).

It is for sure that it is not always easy to have a positive outlook on things. All the crap going on in the world and so on... Certainly and dwell on regret, things in the past, although that is easier said than done. I do regret things, or not doing other things but no matter how much I hate not having done something or that I did something, doesn't change the now. So at any rate I have to deal with what I got. The future is unknown, might be a good future, might be a bad future...then much of the things that will go on my life will very much be beyond my control. For instance, there is the looming possibility a large asteroid will crash into Earth, not much I can do about that...unless I invent a space ship or something.

I understand your thinking 100%, avoiding medications like they are the plague as I am the same....BUT sometimes you get to the point (and hopefully like me) where you have a brilliant doctor and you put your faith in him.

There is always going to be side effects which include withdrawal and rebound, but when I look back, the side effects were so minor compared to where I would e if I sought no treatment.